A PROPHESY . 

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, 

TO BE DELIYEEED MARCH 4th, 1885, 

FEOM THE BALCONY IN FEONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE 
IN WASHINGTON, D. C. 

BY 

WILLIAM ROS£^ 

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ALSO AUTHOB OF / 

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''THE GOOD TIME t!OMiNG,^ -' \- - i j\ \ 

AND 



■'' THE LEARNED LAWYER ON THE TRAMP,'' Etc, 



Entered according to Act of Congress with the Librarian at Wast 
D. C, in the year 1881, by William Rose. 



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PREFACE. 

The Republicans, Socialists and Communists will unite 
in 1 884 to elect a President. The Republicans want a strong 
government, the Socialists and Communists want equal 
rights, and plenty of work for all. 

Jay Gould, their candidate for President, premises, in 
his letter of acceptance, as the principal points in the plat- 
form, and to give satisfaction to all parties, that if he is 
elected he will guarantee a Republican form o( Government 
in all the States — a strong government — and plenty of work 
and equal chances for everybody. Upon this platform he is 
elected, and delivers his message to Congress and the people 
on the fourth day of March, 1885, from the balcony in front 
of the White House, in Washington, D. C, because there 
is not room in the house for all the vast crowds of people 
that come to hear it and see him. 

This message is supposed to have been taken from the 
mind of Jay Gould by a first-class clairvoyant medium, who, 
in an isolated and independent clairvoyant state, can read 
the minds of individuals, and see all their past life and 
actions, all their present thoughts and doings, and all the 
principal desires and events of their future life. 

To be Preesident of the United States is the principal and 
chief object in the life and mind of Jay Gould. That fact was 
easily seen by the medium, and as he has his intended mes- 
sage pretty well worked out and formed as he intends to 
deliver it, the medium had no trouble in speaking the words 
right out which were taken down by a stenographer ver- 
batim, of which this is an exact copy. 



The President's Message. 



I, Jay Gould, by the grace of God, the free use of law- 
made money, and the votes of the people, am this day made 
President of these United States. I need hardly tell you it 
is the greatest honor conferred upon me in my life. Being 
President of a few Railroad Companies is a mere trifle to 
this. 

I am not only President, but with a few other much 
respected gentlemen who, with me will constitute the gov- 
ernment, are now owners of the country with all its institu- 
tions. We own all the money of the country both real and 
fictitious. We have bought this country in a legal business- 
like manner, and being owners of the country it is nothing 
but right that you should elect me the chief owner as your 
President. 

We have bought this country with law-made legal 
money. We did not make the mop.ey or make it legal ; 
your government made it and made it legal. It also made 
laws by which a few of us sharp-sighted far-seeing business 
men were able to so manipulate the money as to produce 
what you see to-day — a few men owners of the whole United 
.States, property, money, courts, government and all. Now, 
1 suppose it would be useless for me to tell you what you 
all must know, that those that own the country, all the 
property and all the money of the country, own all the peo- 
ple of that country. 

You must know also that these are of necessity all 
slaves to their owners, — tenants at will if you like that bet- 
ter. Their peace, prosperity, and happiness are in the hands 
)f ihcir owners. 



I have said this to remind you of the condition or 
standing you occupy, so that you can look from a proper 
stand-point at the things I shall say to you in this my first 
message as President of the United States. 

Of course you are fully aware that the government of 
the country from now on must be very different from the 
government of it as it has been in the past. It is now in 
fact what all you so-called Republicans have been wishing 
and working for so long — a strong government. That you 
can depend upon. Being a strong government, with all the 
machinery of all the States and local governments under 
our command, you may, and no doubt you do expect some 
very radical changes in the fact of government, but not in 
the forms. 

According to the Constitution I guarantee to you all 
the forms of a Republican Goverenment as I promised you 
in my letter of acceptance when nominated. But hereafter 
no nominations will be confirmed that are not of our own 
dictation or choice. We want no jarring elements in the 
government. '' 

I will now give you an outline of the several forms of 
government we have had under discussion — that is, I and my 
honorable brothers that will be this government in the future. 

The first was to establish a monarchy or empire, and 
put Grant in as emperor; for this purpose we sent him on a 
tour round the world to visit the governments of the world 
and learn the best way of conducting an empire govern- 
ment. But all of us —I and my honorable brothers that are 
now the government — were not agreed as to that being the 
best and most suitable form of government for this country. 
There seemed to be a great opposition to the name of empe- 
ror attached to that kind of government, and as we were not 
quite agreed as to what form to adopt, the thing fell through 
at that time. Some thought that in openly establishing 
such a government it would cause something of an out- 
break or revolution, and thereby cause much shedding of 
blood. But none of us doubted our ability to establish that 
form of government if we once got hold of the working 
machinery. 



We let that go and sent Grant off to Mexico to help 
us buy up that country and its people with their law made 
money, the same as we have bought up the United States. 
The same way also as Rothschilds, the Jews, have bought 
up all the countrys and people of Europe,with their — the 
peoples' law made money. VVe got the idea of buying this 
country in a commercial way from the Rothschilds, and 
followed their example. You can congratulate yourselves 
that you are in the hands of Americans, and not of Jews. 

The next proposition we considered was to divide the 
country into three divisions, and have three empires or 
kingdoms. The North and the South to be divided on 
Mason and Dixon's Line^ and west of the Rocky Mountains 
be to an empire of itself, to be called the North, the South, 
and the W cstern Empires. Jay Gould was to be Emperor 
of the North, Jeff. Davis Emperor of the South, and Dennis 
Kearney Emperor of the Western Empire. 

We said Jay Gould being the best business man, he 
would be best suited for the Northern Empire because he 
could control all the railroads, telegraphs, water communi- 
cations, newspapers, and commercial business in general, and 
owning all the money and all the property he could control 
the elections and keep the government on a firm footing,, 
and by his example and advice the two other emperors could 
strengthen and preserve their governments. Jeff. Davis 
being a popular man at the South the people there would 
do anything he recommended. The idea of being Emperor 
of the Southern States or Confederacy pleased Jeff, exceed- 
ingly, so that he entered into our plans and prospects with 
his whole heart and mind. He said that was just the thing 
he seceded for. All he wanted was to be a great man and 
have control of many other men. 

We selected Dennis Kearney for Emperor of the West- 
ern I'Lmpire, because he is popular with the masses, and he 
is right on the Chinese question. There is no power on 
earth that I fear so much to overthrow this government as 
I do the Chinese. They are the greatest immitators and 
gamblers in the world. If I were to have half a dozen of 
them around my business place and residence for one year 



they would know all my business both private and public, 
to the very smallest details. They are child-like and bland 
and appear to take no notice of anything, but they would in 
fact know everything. They would know all my little tricks 
and turns, and would soon be able to beat me at my own game, 
just the same as I have beaten the American people at their 
own national game of gambling. No, if the Chinese are 
allowed to come over here as fast as they please, and be 
allowed to vote at elections, my government is doomed to a 
speedy end. 

They do not come here with big guns and soldiers, and 
declare they will conquer or kill us if we do not let them 
govern this country, the same as the British went to Afghan- 
istan and Boer land. They come silently and quietly, and 
take up their position as labor-slaves, washing- women, shoe- 
makers, tailors, traders, saloon-keepers, caucus-controllers, 
voters, office-holders, tax-collectors, tax spenders and law- 
makers. If we allow them to come m such vast numbers 
they will overrun our country, control our institutions, own 
everything, and make us do their bidding in their own way, 
as completely as the new government you have set up will 
make you do its bidding in its own way. Dennis Kearney 
understands the Chinese question and the Chinese. Here 
is the order I had prepared to give to Dennis Kearney if 
he had taken his seat as emperor. To Dennis Kearney, 
Emperor of the Western Empire of the United States — I 
hereby give you power and permission to prevent the China- 
man from crossing the Western Empire of the United States 
to come to the Northern Empire, of which I am Emperor, 
and I will pay all the expense. 

JAY GOULD. 
The reason why we did not establish this three empire 
government was, — we were afraid some blockhead emperors 
in the next generation might get to quarreling and fighting 
and try to takje each other's territory, and so undo all that 
we had done(; and besides we thought they might not 
always conse^^t to guarantee in all the States a Republican 
form of govetnment. So we let that go. 



We then considered several other propositions and 
things connected with the subject that I need not mention 
here. I think now that the best kind of government that 
could be adopted under the circumstances, is that which 
you have established to day by the inauguration of Jay 
Gould as President. 

I, Jay Gould appreciate the honor you have conferred 
upon me, and will try to make it the best government in the 
world; a model Republican Government, that will stand and 
be likely to give most all the people satisfaction, except 
perhaps some who are at present office-holders. 

Now, as to what I propose to do — I want you all to pay 
particular attention for it is of great importance to you all, 
and will especially effect your individual interests — for the 
better I hope.- 

In the first place, and the first thing I will officially do 
will be to repeal all laws that protect money of every kind, 
bonds, stocks, mortgages, notes, bank notes, greenbacks 
and all evidences of debt whatever. 

NoTF,. — This produced a great sensation among the 
pjople, but no very outspoken words." 

Perhaps some of you will think I am going crazy, and 
we going to upset society and turn all things into chaos; but 
don't be afraid, keep your minds easy and quiet for a little 
while, and you will see all come right. Perhaps some of 
you will remember that I told you in the early part of my 
address that I owned all the real money, gold and silver, 
and all the property and wealth of the country, and that I 
had bought it all with law made money. I have also 
bought all the principal courts, and hired the judges with 
this same law- made money. Some of you may think that 
is a stretcher, and that I do not own it all ; bi^t you can 
easily find it out by cutting loose and trying it on'^^our own 
account, with your own money. I purchased all your private 
property with law-made money, through m^.-^agents, the 
banks, insurance companies, and those calling themselves 
capitalists. 

I, through these agents bought your property at about 
a fjuarter or half what it was supposed to be we«:th, by p^^y- 



ing you the first payment and calling it a mortgage, giving 
you the privilege of re-buying it at a stated time if you 
could. Not one in fifty of you could do it and clear your- 
selves up, because you could not get the money. The 
money that I gave one of you for the mortgage purchase 
of your farm, or other property, somebody else had got 
hold of and returned to me as interest for the use of the 
money I had purchased their property with at about one 
quarter of its nominal value. 

My money comes back to me as interest. In me it is 
again converted into capital, and goes out again as capital 
to purchase another farm or other property at one quarter 
of its nominal value. Just so my money has raked into my 
net all your substance. 

Now, as there is no other money in the country but 
mine. " Note. — I say mine for convenience, I mean also 
those gentlemen who with me now constitute this govern- 
ment," — and nobody can get that only by borrowing it, and 
giving me good security for its return, and so get the use of 
some of my money ; — do you not think it is a hopeless task 
for you to continue to borrow that same money over and 
over, again and again, promising to pay me fresh interest 
every time you borrow it, to try to get your farms and other 
property clear from debt ? 

How sensible; intelligent men as you Americans con- 
sider yourselves to be could establish and continue such a 
system of finance as this is beyond my comprehension. 
The thing is absurd; absolutely impossible. You cannot so 
pay your debts and get clear again any more than you can 
get to the top of the hill by running fast down it. 

Now, as I own all this law-made money, in repealing 
all laws that protect it I only destroy my own property, not 
yours. This law-made money is all gambler's money, made 
by the gamblers, and for the gamblers, and I have no more 
use for it. I cannot very well gamble with myself, and none 
of you have any property to gamble with, and I do not 
think it is good luck to lend money to anybody without 
security, to gamble or play with against myself, so I have 
concluded to destroy it, or take away its value by repealing 
the law that gave it value. 



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The loss is mine not yours. I can do better without 
it. So can you. 

"By the way, if you will just allow a digression, 
I will tell you what I intend to do with this law-made 
paper money — I will gather it all up together, and 
have it made into pulp, formed into a monument, hardened, 
made water-proof and weather-proof, highly polished, and 
have it set up in front of the White House here at Wash- 
ington for a memorial and warning for coming generations. 
On one side shall be inscribed the words — This monument 
was law-made paper money. In 1885, when Jay Gould was 
made President of the United States, the use of law-made 
paper money ended. He had the money gathered together 
at his own expense, and made into this monument and 
placed here for the use and instruction of people in the 
coming ages, to show them the folly and evil of all law- 
made paper money. 

For full particulars see the history of the United States 
about the years 1884 and 1885." 

The next thing I do officially is to repeal all laws that 
raise, support or maintain a standing army. — " Note, this 
produced great displeasure among army officers, who done 
considerable swearing. — "In a model Republic such as I 
intend to establish, standing armies are no use and no 
good. - 

All officers and men comprising the standing armies, 
as now organized, are at liberty to choose and follow any 
profession or business they like, the same as any other peo- 
ple. I shall depend upon volunteers to repel invasion, and 
keep internal peace. The office of Secretary of War is 
here and now abolished. 

Next is the United States Navy, a useless and expen- 
sive part of the past government. This government has no 
more use for it. I now and here abolish the office of Sec- 
retary of the Navy. All naval officers and men are here- 
after at full liberty to choose their trade or profession. 
" Note. — This caused many murmurs, feuch as what is a 
man to do that has all his life time been on the sea, and not 
accustomed to any land employment whatever ?" — All the 



large gunboats and men-of-war, I donate to the States anti- 
quarian societies to be preserved and kept as relics of the 
past. To the State that has paid the most taxes, I give the 
largest gunboat ; to the State that has paid the next highest 
amount of taxes, I give the next largest gunboat, and so on 
to all the States till the boats are all disposed of. 

A few fast-sailing armed boats, as messenger boats, to 
go from one country to another, and to different parts of our 
own country by water is all that is needed as a navy. 
These will be under control of the Secretary of State. 

We have no intention or desire to control or own the 
seas, and therefore have no use for iron-clad gunboats and 
men-of-war. The volunteer patriotic forces at home on the 
land, can successfully repel any attempt at invasion from a 
foreign foe. 

The next thing I officially do is to abolish all laws 
for the collection of Taxes, Internal, Imports, and Ex- 
ports. All cfifice-holders and employes in the department 
of taxes are here and now dismissed. The government has 
no more use for them. "Note. — This produced great com- 
motion." Note. — (here the medium explained that she 
could perceive the words and excitement of the crowd of 
people just as well as she could the President's words, so 
far as they had reference to the President's address) ; cat-a 
walings, shouting, whistlirfg, screaming, and every conceiva- 
ble noise. — Some were in favor of and some against the 
President's words. — "Shut up old man, you are crazy. — We 
have had enough of that. — We won't have such a fool for 
President. — Give your work to the nigger. — We can't live 
without offices. — We are gentlemen, and can't work. — You 
are a bigger fool than I thought." To the last voice that spoke 
another said, " Shut up, or I'll mash your head. Jay Gould 
IS President; he knows what he is about. — We don't want 
idle, loafing office-holders. — Go to work like the rest of us. 
— Hurrah for Jay Gould ! — Jay Gould is the best President 
we ever had." Then up spoke the voice of a great stalwart 
Representative and said, " I will not represent the great State 
of New York in such a government. — We want to control 
the patronage of the State, therefore I resign my position 



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as Senator from said State." Another little squeeking voice 
behind him cried out, " Me, too." 

One voice said, " give us offices or we will Gui-teau 
you as we did Garfield about foury ears ago." To 
this the President replied : '* Gentlemen, I am rather 
pleased to hear you speak your minds so freely ; 
to the last remark I would like to sav a word — 'Give us 
offices or we will Gui-teau }'0u, as we did Garfield about 
four years ago.' This I take to be a threatening of my life 
if I do not keep offices for and give them to every one that 
applies for one. Now, under no possible circumstances will 
that be done. Your threats will not intimidate me in the 
least." 

Sometimes I think I would like for you to fulfill your 
threats and shoot me, as by that means my nanie would in 
history, go down to posterity as a great martyr to principal, 
and a true model Republican form of government, as it is 
scarcely possible for it to do in any other way. Then my 
especial form of government would receive an impetus, and 
its merits be known and discussed in all parts of the civil- 
ized world. 

You as individuals, or w^ould be office-holders, would 
receive no benefit from such a course of assassination, for 
if you kill me another will take the office of President that 
is fully bound and determined to^arry on this same kind of 
governmc-nt until it is fully established. 

Every succeeding President will be elected from the 
small number of men (about one hundred) that now own 
and constitute the government of this country. As their 
number decreases by death or otherwise, the deficiency will 
be made up with persons that have the most influence or 
money, so that their number will always be sufficient. This 
body of men, which constitutes the government, will be 
something like the College of Cardinals in the Roman 
Catholic Church. They will always elect, by vote, who 
shall be the next President oi: the United States, and see 
that their choice is always nominated by the people and 
elected, as the choice of the cardinals is always made pope. 
[Here the President resumed his address.] 



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As the one hundred or so of men that are now the gov- 
ernment, own about all the property and value in the coun- 
try, it would be a piece of extreme folly to keep up an 
expensive and extensive system of taxing their own property, 
and collecting the tax from it to pay themselves interest on 
the bonds and mortgages they hold, but of which the prin- 
cipal can never possibly be paid, because all the private 
property mortgaged to pay public, National, State, county, 
city, etc., bonds have passed into their hands as private 
individuals. 

They own all the public bonds and mortgages you have 
given — all unpaid — and also all the property you then had 
that you gave as security for the payment of those bonds. 
So you see that to collect tax at one end of their property 
to pay interest at the other end, would be like robbing Peter 
to pay Paul, besides it costs a great deal of useless expense. 

We own all the money in the countr}', own all the rail- 
roads and other means of transportation ; own all the tele- 
graphs and ocean cables ; own all property and improved 
farms ; control all the leading newspapers ; own all produc- 
tive mines, minerals, coal, and oil wells, all of which we, as 
individuals, have bought, according to law and paid for. 

As the government, we control all unimproved lands 
that have not been sold or traded away to us. We control 
all the departments, power and machinery of the govern- 
ment — therefore I henceforth propose to run the government 
of this country on purely business forms and principles. 

By abolishing the army, navy, taxes, and interest de- 
partments, we cut down the expenses of the government to 
a merely nominal sum. All this I propose to yay from the 
profits of the railroads.. the telegraphs, the mines and other 
means of transportation and commerce. 

All the gold and silver mines belong to the government 
as now constituted. All the product of these mines, after 
paying the expense of mining and coining, I shall use to 
pay the expenses of government. Iron, copper, coal, oil 
and all other mines, now also belong to the government ; 
the profits from them, after paying the expense of produc- 
tion, will also go to pay the expense of government. 



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All lands that are not or have never been cultivated, 
are free to any citizen in lots so large as he can cultivate 
and take care of, and no more. He can record such lot of 
land, and the government will give him a title or claim to it, 
and to his heirs and successors forever, or so long as he or 
they occupy and use it. All improvements and good will 
he may make upon it he can sell or trade away any time at 
pleasure, and the title of occupancy will be good in his suc- 
cessors, so long as they occupy and use it. 

All employes on the railroads, and all government em- 
ployes, will consider eight hours as a day's work. Where 
more time and labor are wanted, fresh men will be employed. 

All men with families that work on a railroad, if they 
wish, will be supplied with a cottage and not less than one 
acre of land, so long as they are in the employ of the road. 

The government will employ in the mines all men that 
need employment, and pay them good wages. The govern- 
ment will receive and pay nothing but gold and silver, as 
money, in its business of all kinds. No paper money, no credit 
allowed. Pay as you go, in real money, is our motto from 
this time on. 

With all the vast resources of the country in the mines, 
and in the land to produce the raw material, we, as a nation, 
can successfully compete with all the world in free trade in 
everything. If I cannot run the government of this coun- 
try successfully upon strictly business principles, without 
collecting one cent as tax from any of the people, why, then 
I will go where the " woodbine twineth." 

Some one asks — What about your own private prop- 
erty ? don't vou want income from that ? No, I want no 
income from any of my property as interest. I intend to 
work or use my property and make my living by it, as a 
man works his farm and makes his living at that. A 
man that owns a farm has no stocks or bonds to represent 
its value on which he can make other people pay him inter- 
est, over and above what he can make in a commercial way 
from its products. That is all I want from my property, 
what I can make it pay me in an honest, commercial busi- 
ness way. 



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But you seem to mix your property up with the prop- 
erty of the government or people, i{ the latter have any 
property left — how are you goirtg to keep accounts, or make 
the distinction between the two ? 

By being established President of the United States, I 
have gained the highest point of ambition or desire of my 
life. My bodily or personal needs are very small. To ob- 
tain and own large amounts of money and property I no 
longer desire. To see this government established on a 
good solid foundation of equality and justice, that will give 
peace and contentment to all its citizens is henceforth the 
main object of my life. 

The property that I own in my individual right I shall 
take the liberty to dispose of while I live, and not leave it to 
be quarreled about and fought for by heirs at law, executors, 
and lawyers, after I am dead. 

The land part of that property I shall give in lots to 
suit, to any citizen that will use it, free from expense, and to 
his heirs and successors forever. 

Although I have procured :this property honestly and 
justly, according to the laws of the country, I do not con- 
sider it my natural right. I do not wish to own slaves. If 
I leased or rented out all my property to other persons, and 
received for it rent or interest, those persons would be my 
slaves. That rent or interest would be of no use to me ex- 
cept to gratify my ambition. 

I have no more ambition now that could be gratified 
in that way. Man's life is short at best. My greatest de- 
sire is to see mankind free from bondage or slavery to each 
other. All my property I shall dispose of as my individual 
interest. All the government or peoples' property will be 
disposed of or used as the peoples' property. All my 
property will help to bear the expenses of the government 
in a commercial business way, the same as any other prop- 
erty. 

I shall give away all my land property just as fast as I 
can find people that will take and use it. I believe no man 
has a right to more land than he can use for the support and 
comfort of his family, and every man has a right to as much 



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as he needs without paying rent, or tax, or interest for its 
use to anybody. 

No man made the land, therefore land is no man's prop- 
erty. All value set upon unused land is fictitious. It would 
be a thing impossible if the laws did not permit individuals 
to own and corner land as merchants do wheat, pork, cot- 
ton, etc., and force people from necessity to pay high prices 
for the use of it. Such trading or cornering, if carried to 
its possible end, would place the whole of the money and 
all property values in the hands of one or two men — the 
sharpest, smartest men, the best gamblers. 

I have another little matter that I wish to say a few 
words about. It seems a very delicate thing to speak of, 
and some may think it out of place in a President's message, 
but I think it of very great importance to the well being of 
the country, and the health, pleasure and longevity of the 
people. I hope you will indulge me for a few moments 
longer. Many voices — Go on, go on, we will not get tired. 

The President- — You will perceive that when we have es- 
tablished this system of government, that I this day propose 
and commence, that it will produce a great revolution in the 
social system of the country. When poverty and the fear 
of poverty are removed from the presence, and the minds 
of men and women, as I expect it will be, and reason and 
a desire for equal privileges and right take control of the 
minds of a majority of people, instead of avariciousness, 
and a desire to control and oppress, then the natural increase 
of population will greatly exceed the present rate. Fifty 
per cent, of the children will not die before they are five 
years old. Then the population of the country will double 
in a great deal less time than it does now. 

The point that I want to make and impress upon your 
minds is this — If the population doubles say every fifty 
years, yvou must know that any country, be it as large as it 
may, will eventually be over-stocked with people, and unable 
to su|)port them. 

This, I think, is a general law of nature ; any species of 
animal life, if allowed to breed and increase to the full extent 
of its power of production, without check or set back, 



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would, in time, take possession of the earth to the exclu- 
sion of all other animals. 

Take the little mouse, for instance ; suppose the female 
mouse has five litters of young in one year, and five young 
ones each time ; these five litters would be twenty-five mice 
from one mouse every year, or, say it takes two mice to 
produce a litter, it will be twelve and one-half mice for every 
mouse in each year. If a mouse lives and produces young 
five years, at this rate each mouse will, in its life-time, pro- 
duce sixty-two and one-half of its own kind. Now, if you 
can just figure out and multiply without loss, the rate of in- 
crease of mice, you will soon see that if they were left alone 
and not destroyed or killed, they would soon eat up every- 
thing that was produced, and leave nothing for any other 
animals. 

Again, if you take the cow; let each cow have one 
calf each year, and every female calf have a calf at three 
years old, and every cow live fifteen years, you can easily 
see that if all the product of the cows were allowed to live 
without check or set back, they would eventually overrun 
the earth to the exclusion of all other animals. 

Now, as mankind are a species of animal, and subject 
to the laws of animal life, the same as all other animals, it 
follows that if they are allowed to produce and increase to 
the full extent of their power of production, without check 
or set-back, they would, in time, overrun the earth, and it 
would no longer be able to support them. In the past the 
principal check upon the increase of mankind have been 
Wars, Pestilence, and Famines. 

In this system of government which we this day com- 
mence and hope to establish, I expect in a very great degree 
to do without wars, and also without much pestilence and 
famine. 

Now, as a matter of course if we remove these checks 
to increase of population, and also remove the presence and 
prospect of poverty, the natural increase of population will 
be very fast, and eventually over-stock the continent without 
the aid of emigration. Then you will say, what are you 
going to do about it ? 



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I will tell you what I propose to do, and I shall need 
your assistance in the matter. First is this : That no 
woman be allowed to raise a child that is in any way Crip- 
pled, Deformed or Diseased at birth. 

Next. — That if by any chance such born cripples, dis- 
eased or deformed children are raised to maturity, they shall 
never be allowed to reproduce their kind. 

Fully establish these two propositions in the social 
system, and you will have no more use for lunatic asylums 
and mad-houses. That is prospective. Now for the pres- 
ent — and this I order for a general law, to be enforced 
throughout the country. 

Let no man or woman that is Mad, a Lunatic, or a 
Drunkard, have any possible chance to live with the oppo- 
site sex and reproduce their kind. Enforce these laws, both 
present and prospective, and you will check the alarming 
increase of the crazy and vicious population of the present 
time as shown by the records of lunatic asylums, jails, and 
drunkards. 

When this system of society is fijlly established every 
man can have a good healthy woman for his wife ; every 
woman can have a good healthy man for her husband, and 
every man and wife can have good healthy children for 
their children. 

To have a good strong healthy government we must 
have good, strong, healthy men, women, and children. 

THE END. 

Three times three good rousing cheers were given for 
Jay Gould President of the United States. 



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